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| "Blaize and I didn't see everything the same way but, I sure wish he was still around.." Rob |
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| The oh so underground Tom Groholski with a healthy frontside air to truck. |
Mertz-frigid air." Me, Ken Sigafoos and Fred Smith had a band called Triple Negative because we all had such violent
tempers. One time I threw my helmet thru the bay window of the trailer there...."Rob
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Long time local Dave Messick put out a great video called "The Ocean Bowl Story". This video has everything in it.
Call up Atlantic Skates in O.C. to get a copy. You won't be disappointed.
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Bernie o'dowd-the first originator of going backwards or "switch" as it is now called. He was the first to drop
in backwards, do backwards airs and the now famous bernie 5000.
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"The back of this photo says Mertz-channel plant. So that's what it is, a channel plant. The funny thing about this photo
is that I have no front teeth. I knocked them out 8 months before this at the Stone Mountain NSA contest. A year and a half
passed before I got front teeth and I didn't even care." Rob
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| V.B. forkster, Allen Midgett flowing thru a mute air. |
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| Peanut Brown-channel boneless. |
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| Lenny Byrd with a frontside air. |
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| Geoff Graham-smith grind. |
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| Buster Halterman was just coming up.... |
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| The Captain of Team Steam-John Ballon with an andrecht. |
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| Paul Wisnewski-backside air. |
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